Chapter 351 - The Roman Curia Declares War (2/2)

One could say that countless Christians went on pilgrimages to the Vatican every single month.

That was just about all that Lu Xuan knew about the place. While the Vatican became increasingly more pious, the Roman Curia of the Vatican remained low profile as always.

It was no longer the middle ages; the surrounding nations would no longer submit to the Roman Curia so easily.

Due to the massive influence that the Roman Curia of the Vatican had on the Christians from all over the world, it was currently placed under scrutiny by many countries.

If the Roman Curia were to try acting higher than them, they might end up shaking the entire western part of the world. The affected western governments would even join forces to take out the Roman Curia.

The countries had been making painstaking efforts to shake themselves off of the Vatican’s control in the first place after all, and no one wanted things to return to how they had once been.

That was the reason why the Vatican stayed quiet all the time.

Despite all that had happened in recent years, the Roman Curia of the Vatican continued to stay low.

Now, the organization was finally done with keeping to itself.

They went so far as to declare that Lu Xuan was the modern reincarnation of the Devil himself. Only by killing Lu Xuan could they purify the world and allow all devotees to ascend to heaven.

Lu Xuan’s act of killing the President of the United States of America was done under the Devil’s influence.

They declared that there as long as Lu Xuan was still alive, there would be no peace among Christians.

The declaration instantly caused a huge commotion.

If the Roman Curia were to make such a high-profile declaration before spirit qi was restored to the world, it would have looked like they were asking to be insulted.

Despite the organization still holding quite a high of influence in the hearts of their devotees, it only went so far.

Domination of modern science made it so that any talk of gods and demons would be seen as a joke. Anyone doing so would be made into a laughing stock.

However, things were no longer that way. After spirit qi was restored to the world, all manner of mystical phenomena began to take place in the Vatican. Everyone came to ponder the possibility of such gods existing in ancient times.

They were sure that God actually made himself seen and heard.

One could even say that religions of all kinds grew by leaps and bounds after spirit qi was restored to the world. This applied especially to Christianity, which became the largest religion throughout the world.

There was no way to tell just how many believers of the religion, mainly the least faithful of the followers, would become fanatics.

Many people have even gone on a pilgrimage to the Vatican with the expressed intention of acquiring cultivation methods.

Currently, what the Roman Curia said was no longer something that had some influence. Rather, it was now something that called countless fanatics out there into action.

It was practically a declaration of war, one that shook cultivators from across the world.

On one side of the war was the leader of western cultivators. Even the newer sects like the Eastern Orthodox Church had to acknowledge the pope’s authority, whose status was on par with the leaders of the Big Five in the present day.

On the other side, there was the person that was acknowledged by just about every cultivator of the east. That person possessed powers beyond imagination, so much so that he was able to treat even Airborne Realm beings like toys.

The top-notch figures among the monsters of the world of cultivators were about to clash in a way that had never been seen before.

That declaration itself instantly shocked the entire world.

In the declaration, the pope went so far as to call to devotees from all over the world to rise against the man they had deemed the devil-incarnate. Everyone who had trade relations with the Lu Clan, of which Lu Xuan was a member, had to sever said trade relations right away.

The Roman Curia was calling out to all to sanction that devil who was more than powerful enough to threaten the western Christian world.

“Alright, so, you’re saying that I’ve now become the devil? Satan’s underling or something?” Lu Xuan smirked. To him, Satan was a nobody and was unfit to be his boss.